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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apristel:
I feel for you that your phone isn't working. Fraud isnt the answer. do you HONESTLY feel you'd get the same answer from Google if you told them that you rooted/unlocked and now your phone isn't working?

just saying that those who f up and make everyone pay for it are wrong. I personally like paying 400 for the 32gb device. I'd rather not pay 500 because of people who mess up and now make the cost/device go up due to rma's that are not legit.

The issuance of an RMA/RGA is a key gatekeeping moment in the reverse logistics cycle, providing the vendor with a final opportunity to diagnose and correct the customer's problem with the product (such as improper installation or configuration) before it is returned. As returns are costly for the vendor and inconvenient for the customer, any return that can be prevented benefits both parties.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alex240188:
Dude you need to chill a little. Unlocking your bootloader does not completely null warranty. If you brick your phone via software then you are responsible.

By the sounds of what is happening with the op, he has not changed anything to end up in this predicament. As with the other purple with similar problems (unlocking bootloader resulting in brick) can hardly be pointed at them.

Clearly something is happening which is out of user control which is causing these bricks.

If the ROM fails to boot it will throw you back to the bootloader.

If the bootloader fails you have a brick (not 100% true but not going into that now)

The facts are that the op has unlocked the bootloader which is a legitimate task and has for unknown reasons ended up with a corrupt bootloader.

This should still be covered as the op has not fine anything to solicit what had happened.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] incredulous:
Personally from my own experience, as the disclaimer on the bootloader unlock screen states 'This MAY void your warranty', telling Google the truth would be his best bet. Call Google, advise that the bootloader was unlocked and worked for 3 days and then it suddenly stopped booting.

If you bought a Nexus 5 and don't plan to do anything to it then that's up to you. However some of us buy Nexus devices because of the ease of development on them. Google facilitate this with the ability to unlock the bootloader and have no justifiable reason to refuse an RMA when all the OP has done is unlock said bootloader.

Why don't YOU stop being a **** and get off this thread. Please.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daniel.kusy:
Anyone else bricked their phone like this? Managed to un-brick mine from an identical situation, if anyone is still stuck like I was I'll try and make a little "guide" to help others:)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flks:
Apparently yes, I'm not the only one. It would be great if you try to explain your solution!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] catpunt:
try this: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=47420612&postcount=36
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daniel.kusy:
Hey Flayks, yeah looks like catpunt beat me to it! Summarising the steps I took to fix my phone:

1.) With the wall charger socket plugged into the phone, hold both volume buttons and power button simultaniously for around 15 second

2.) This seems to boot you into some sort of bootloader state, from there use fastboot to oem unlock/lock and flash stock images *developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#hammerhead*. I used the "Flash all" bat file to restore everything to stock.

3.) Result. reboot and should have a fresh new stock image.

Just to note, I couldn't actually manage to get fastboot to work when I first got into the bootloader state, if something similar does happen to you I'd advise navigating to start in the bootloader (which boots into the android OS installed) then downloading the "BootUnlocker for Nexus Devices". maybe a coincidence but after locking the bootloader, then unlocking it with "fastboot oem unlock" fastboot started working:L anyway I hope this helps anyone in the same position I was in, hit thanks if this helped at all:)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flks:
No issue, I can't go in Download mode neither with the 15-seconds-all-buttons trick. I really think it's dead.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daniel.kusy:
Ye with little faith;) plug it into your computer and tell me what it shows up as in device manager.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ronakg:
I thought I was the only one with a bricked Nexus 5. However mine was absolutely stock, not rooted and untouched bootloader. Had reported the same to Google day before yesterday and got my replacement Nexus 5 delivered today.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdafalter:
Dudes, I got the same problem today, but it seems to be fixed now. Just ADBing back everything in twrp-recovery and then will try to restore nandroid. Hopefully everything will be as before, as I just made a nandroid bevore it bricked.

It took me a while to get into bootloader. My solution was:

Vol-Down + Power for 15s

Vol-Up + Power for 15s

Vol-Up + Down + Power for 15s... yes, bootloaderscreen. If you won't get here, try charging it for an hour on AC, not USB-port, and start again from the start holding the buttons.

Enter recovery (twrp!), to backup all data or skip this step.

run "adb pull /sdcard/ your-folder" to get all data still on the device.

Try entering bootloader again; might start pushing buttons again as above.

re-lock and unlock bootloader again with "fastboot oem (un)lock"

run flash_all from factory images

Now it should automatically boot the stock OS.

Now install twrp again, as done the first time, and erase userdata, just to be sure:

"fastboot format userdata"

Go to recovery and ADB back your data:

"adb push your-folder /sdcard/"... thats what I'm doing right now.

Since it bootet again with stock image i guess after nandroid restore all will be back to how it was this afternoon.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Synyster06Gates:
Not trying to start an argument here, but he unlocked the bootloader and rooted the phone using CF autoroot. Aside from the small number of phones that had issues out of the gate, just about ALL of the bricked devices I've seen came from "newbies" using CF Autoroot (or other tools, not stating that CF's tool did it). Simply put, he voided the warranty. He didn't JUST unlock the bootloader. Gaining access to root instantly voids warranty IIRC.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdafalter:
just to let you know, all is like a few hour ago, nandroid restore worked after the procedure, will have a good night sleep :laugh:

No it does not, damaging your device does. In this case it is negligible if you did it with the rights SU gave you or if you just accidentally put it in the washing machine. As long as the manufacturer can't proof that you damaged it, your warranty is still in play.

Since also stock devices had the sudden death and the rooted ones didn't do anything that could brick the phone in that peticular moment, there is no need for a guilty conscience. Don't let s.o. tell you otherwise.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Synyster06Gates:
According to the sticky at the top of the subforum, it does.

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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdafalter:
Simply not true. Don't believe everything you can read in the papers :p

Good that you read the stickies though, but this is just to intimidate noobs...

Note: my statement is based on German / EU laws, other counties might differ. Also I'm not a lawer, so this is not a legal advice. Everyone has to check local laws and ones conscience on their own. :angel:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ppkhoa:
I just had this problem, very panic! Similar problem, but before it got bricked, I installed the TouchControl kernel, to use the doubletap2wake. I tried bootloader mode, what shown up in device manager is a new USB device with status "The USB device failed to start", getting into download mode: it install new broadcom driver, too fast too read the whole thing.

How I boot up again: Plug in the charger, instead of PC, press and hold power button for 8-9 seconds, no idea what happened but my phone boot up again. Reboot again, stuck again, apply same method, this time I just go straight to bootloader and reflash everything. That's very scary moment, thinking about RMA...
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whisky_:
I just brought my phone from the dead thanks to a little bit of trying and a bundle of help from God. Thank faith lol.

1. Plug phone into wall charger and hold power button down for 15 seconds.

2. Unplug phone.

3. Hold Volume up+Volume down+Power button for a couple of seconds till it boots back to the bootloader.

It may not do this at the first try so you might have to keep on holding just the Power button for a while and then doing step 3 again.

Try try again and hopefully you'll be fine. I just paid approximately $485 USD for Nexus 5 just a few hours ago and I don't get any kind of warranty or replacement. I was scared lol.

Best of luck.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] favoriddycent257:
thaaaaaaaank you man you unbricked my nexus 5 thank you so much!!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] favoriddycent257:
Yes:(
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Web_E:
This morning my alarm didn't ring.. same problem. Could not boot using any method.. contacted for RMA. Don't know what will happen as it is with unlocked bootloader. stock room, franko kernel with stock settings. :(
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vangelis13:
I have yet to hear of a confirmed case of anyone getting bust for that. You'll be ok. :thumbup:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Masterface7:
Thanks for the link. I just borked my phone when i was trying to enable wireless tethering on sprint, I couldn't even boot into recovery. Just when my hopes were up for a reason to buy the new red one i finally found this thread with instructions to restoring from the fastboot screen. So thanks i didnt really want the red anyway.

I just kidding, thanks really i was actually a little worried when it wouldn't boot into recovery mode.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jd1639:
If you follow this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=47156064 I bet there is a way to restore your phone without losing everything on it.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] desolation1982:
hi i bricked my phone tonight same thing installing a new kernel through twrp and it is stuck at black screen wont reset after holding any of the buttons pc wont recognize it nothing notta i am going crazy here someone help device manager in win7 shows qhsusb_bulk phone will not do a dam thing now
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vin4yak:
Can you access recovery? Wipe data/cache/dalvic and then Flash the rom.zip and gapps.zip again and reboot. If you still can't boot then try going back to stock (look at the General stickies for full procedure)..

However, the qhsusb_bulk doesn't look good. It's most probably a brick (Emmc failure).
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] desolation1982:
Nope just black screen wont reboot by holding power either nothing works
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vin4yak:
If you are not able to get to the bootloader, then it's certainly a hard brick...

RMA it asap..

-Flowed from an IceCold Hammerhead!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yyz71:
Yep mine is also bricked.. Found a wireless place will jtag it for $50.00 so pissed:mad: When i look at device manager it shows unknown device:confused:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Visa Declined:
How did it happen?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yyz71:
Flashed a corrupted bootloader :( Totally my fault... I't should be fixed monday

I search the forums about Jtag did a lot of reading about it. I'm just hoping he doesn't erase my phone... I think he could flash everything else except userdata:fingers-crossed: that wipes the phone clean..
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bitdomo:
Please do the following:

Remove usb cable if connected.

Hold down only the power key for 15-20secs then release it.

Hold down only the volume_up key then connect the phone to the pc.

Do you see any screen?

Tapatalk-kal küldve az én Nexus 5-el
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yyz71:
Let me try this

Edit : nope nothing at all. Hard bricked..
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edri03:
JTAG

Hi Man

Did Jtag revive your phone???
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yyz71:
Nope.:crying:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trsix:
umm

You're disgusting. Worry about yourself.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] desolation1982:
I ended up just doing an insurance claim and told them my story and the service rep put my claim right through and said i didnt even have to send in my old one now i have backup parts if i drop and break my new one
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mullasuleman:
I am also having the same issue here. No bootloader, no recovery, nothing. Device Manager shows the qhsusb_bulk. Any suggestions?:crying:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vin4yak:
The eMMC chip might have gone bad. You need to RMA it.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pure_Android:
HELP MEEE

I put on TWRP 2.6.3.0 on my Nexus 5 (I used towerlroot succesfully) and i tried wiping as you should, i noticed i loaded an old twrp so i quickly powerd off my Nexus5. When i loaded, every app had a "Google play services has stopped" error and some would force close. I reloaded TWRP and tried to flash cyanogenmod and gapps, succelfully they installed. Now cyanogenmod is stuck in the boot animation and i dont know to update TWRP, HELPP PLEASSE!!!!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jd1639:
I'm sure when your powered off you caused some problems. When you tried to flash cm did you do the wipes, system, data and the caches. Try that and cm should boot. To update twrp just download the latest twrp zip and flash that in your current version. Google recovery zip collection xda.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
[MENTION=5786382]Pure_Android[/MENTION] reboot recovery, format: system, data, cache and dalvik cache. Flash again CM and Gapps and reboot.

tetakpatalked from N7100
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] benavidees:
My nexus is stucked in twrp

Please i need hel, when i was abaout to flash a rom, i marked the wipe system and data, so the i wiped and now i dont have a firmware, so it is stucked in twrp, please help me. Is it something i can do?:crying::crying::crying:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Araan45:
Get a rom on your computer and go to twrp>advanced>adb sideload

and go put the rom in your adb and fastboot files and type "adb sideload <ROM file name>.zip"
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] benavidees:
thanks, but, how i do i do that? i dont know where are my adb and fastboot files
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
Don't worry, nothing bad has happened. You just need to install ADB and fastboot on your PC (either as whole SDK suite with newest java and eclipse or if you are a Windows user also many little toolkits work, like THIS one )

Then you can either push the rom.zip to your device with ADB (when device in recovery mode), or sideload flash directly from your PC.

If TWRP angers, you can flash another recovery with fastboot. Don't panic, mate- keep calm and read about ADB and fastboot. This is f.e. great guide:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1907796

(in Nexus 7 section, but commands and drivers part are working identic for all Nexus devices)

tetakpatalked from N7100
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] divyanshgandhi:
Bricked Nexus 5

So this is what happened...my nexus 5 was running cm11s rom with no extra kernels or anything. I was browsing the net for some extra modifications and I installed a volume booster and something named like "Medusa AIO script" http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2775943 and my phone wasn't responding as gud asit was doing. I rebooted, everything started working fine and when the phone was on standby for sometime it again started laging . So what i did was i rebooted into recovery and installed my previously backed up android l developer preview file. Since then the phone is stuck in bootloop and the CWM recovery is also gone. I tried to install CWM recovery again by using adb. The device gets into fastboot mode but the computer isnt recognising it. As long as i remember the USB debugging option was disabled. I am sick worried I have tried everything. I tried to update the drivers. I tried to flash again cm11s. But the device isnt getting found in the adb. Please help. I have tried this alsohttp://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/development/tool-06-03-14-one-click-factory-restore-t2513937 but the screen is stuck on <waiting for device>. I dont care if i have to wipe the whole device. I backed up everything before.:(:(
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
1. ADB isn't used in bootloader

2. Fastboot is used in bootloader

3. USB Debugging is relevant ONLY in Android, NOT bootloader or recovery

4. Everything you need is in the first link of my signature
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tauseefalik:
Don't know it's bricked or not. But it is not starting properly for sure

I installed this new xtrasmooth rom on my nexus 5 using twrp today. Everything looked to work fine. But i couln't take the screenshots. Due to storage issues.

I got help from xda, they told me to flash stock rom. I flashed stock rom using bootloader and adb in cmd.exe.

i-e

"fastboot flash system C:/image-hammerhead-krt16m/system.img

fastboot flash userdata C:/image-hammerhead-krt16m/userdata.img

fastboot flash boot C:/image-hammerhead-krt16m/boot.img

fastboot flash recovery C:/image-hammerhead-krt16m/recovery.img

fastboot erase cache"

after this. My phone is starting. the 4 colourful circles are just running around on my screen for last 40 minutes. And it won't freaking start up.

I have tried turning phone off, going into recovery using volume and power keys. It shows an android lying with red signal on the belly. TWRP is gone, I am helpless and unable to do anything.

Can please anybody tell me what have i done. And how do i get my phone working.

Update: I got my phone working after resetting through android recovery. Thank God. My phone's back alive!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jd1639:
Run the same fastboot commands, but run

fastboot -w

first.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] udit0304:
My nexux 5 stuck in an android boot with antina

I have stock android 5.1 in nexus 5 and my phone suddenly switched off and when i turn it on it was stuck in the boot logo with reboot again and again then i tried to factory reset my device using the adb command to unlock to oem and then reboot my device but i was just a black screen an i waited for a minute or 2 then i press the power button as nothing was shown in the screen just a blank and now when i restar it just a android boot with an antenna and cube revolving should i wait or my device i bricked please help. Its about 20 minutes and still no boot screen till now
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bishajit:
Need urgent help

Hi there, I am having trouble with my Nexus 5X. It's not working not even opening. So, I tried to BRICK using LG-UP and encountered a sudden stop during 48%. Later on, I made few more attempts to open up unplugging USB and pop-up message showed that "Device is Corrupted". Thereafter, the phone opened using power-and-down button and tried to UNBRICK using LG-UP. Then again, it stopped during 11%. And it seems totally blacked out. I don't know what to do now. I seek help, Please. My only query is that at this state is it dead or there is still a chance. TIA
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trsix:
Read some negative comments about using a toolkit to root, install recovery etc.

Is there really a downside to toolkits?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] El Daddy:
Look at all the threads this weekend about "bricking" their phone and being stuck in a bootloop. I think all of them were caused by using a toolkit and not having any idea how to fix it.

There have also been many threads this weekend with users asking "how to do X?" or "how to I do Z?" These this things should be very simple, if they learned HOW to "root" their phone. Instead they used a toolkit. It unlocked the bootloader, flashed a custom recovery, and gave them root permissions without the user learning what the hell just happened! You wouldn't take off and fly a plane without learning how to land right?! :)

I wrote about this nearly two years ago in the era of the Galaxy Nexus. Unfortunately, nothing has changed. It actually may have gotten worse.

If you want to read it, here's the link. http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=21936493
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jd1639:
The best thing you can do is learn about your phone and how to do things manually. You'll be much better in the long run. Might take you longer but you'll be better off too.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elementaldragon:
I'm not sure if it's the tookits themselves, or if it's people thinking "oh, it's a toolkit. I don't have to pay attention to what's going on, i just have to agree with whatever the prompt tells me to do" and probably wind up going through different steps before the phone is actually ready to proceed to the next step? I'm not sure if that's possible, since i've never used a toolkit to root/unlock/flash my phones... but i wouldn't doubt it.

Long story short... better off doing things manually, so if something gets a little borked, you're more likely to know what and why.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apristel:
toolkits=noobs=my phone doesnt work.

Toolkits should be banned from XDA. Nothing but issues.

Setup ADB and type the 100char it takes to do anything.

LAZY + My phone doesnt work = higher prices for the people who take the time to learn what they are doing. I seriously get heated when i read the i f'ed up my phone and i'll rma it threads. get a f'ing clue should be where you hang out at.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] caribouxda:
Toolkits we have right now all suck big time. Better learn to fo stuff yourself. Not that difficult
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] morfic:
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Kernel: B48 http://goo.gl/veDWs6

Source: B48 http://goo.gl/08ZWqi

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Featuring:

Build optimizations

Performance through research

Removed wasteful debugging

Scheduler, Governor tweaks

gcc4.8 built

Up to 2726MHz and boots up @ 2.26GHz, stock clock

fsync control (by ezekeel)

exfat (fixed Samsung's Makefile breakage)

SELinux permissive

Samsung root restriction removed

Bullshît Free (Not pushing buzzwords to drop them later like others)

This is an early build, developed blind by having a tester run it and give feedback, since i have no device to test this on, this kernel is not (yet?) supported by my app, so if you own it, refrain from using it for now.

If you don't have wifi, edit your build.prop, change secure storage from true to false and you will have wifi.

i will update this as i have time for it.

Yes, there is a lot that can be done still, but doing it remotely, things take time ;)

http://goo.gl/O0KEme init.qcom.post_boot.sh to try in case yours is causing problems
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] d12unk13astard:
Loved your work on the G2X Morfic, Excellent job to you and your tester for getting this to us.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Cole59:
Hi,

This Kernel is compatible Note 3 SM-N9005 ?

Thanks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] gonnapushthru06:
Was so waiting for u to bring Ur amazing work here can't wait to try it
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] slice2011:
Lmao :thumbup:

Awesome morfic, thanks for dropping this on us.

thr0₩n t0g€th€R bY mY t₩€aK€d 0uT n○t€ III
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] alexander1995:
Could you add support for n900k version?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] developmentbro:
Awesome. Yeah this is the guy I was talking about in my thread. Great kernel! Way better than compulsion and saber!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] nickster1:
Outstanding!!! Thanks for your work.